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Protocols and Standards

RFC2858: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

RFC3392: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

draft-ietf-idmr-bgp-mcast-attr-00: BGP Attributes for Multicast Tree Construction

RFC4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)

RFC5291: Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4

RFC5292: Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4

MBGP Configuration Task List

Complete the following tasks to configure MBGP:

Task

Remarks

Configuring MBGP Basic Functions

Required

Configuring MBGP Route Redistribution

Required

Configure Default Route Redistribution into MBGP

Optional

Configuring MBGP Route Summarization

Optional

Advertising a Default Route to an IPv4 MBGP Peer or Peer
Group

Optional

Configuring Outbound MBGP Route Filtering

Optional

Configuring Inbound MBGP Route Filtering

Optional

Controlling Route
Advertisement and
Reception

Configuring MBGP Route Dampening

Configuring MBGP Route Preferences

Configuring the Default Local Preference

Configuring the MED Attribute

Configuring the Next Hop Attribute

Configuring MBGP
Route Attributes

Configuring the AS-PATH Attribute

Optional

Configuring MBGP Soft Reset

Optional

Enabling the MBGP ORF Capability

Tuning and
Optimizing MBGP
Networks

Configuring the Maximum Number of MBGP Routes for
Load Balancing

Optional

Configuring IPv4 MBGP Peer Groups

Optional

Configuring MBGP Community

Optional

Configuring a
Large Scale
MBGP Network

Configuring an MBGP Route Reflector

Optional

Configuring MBGP Basic Functions

Prerequisites

Before configuring MBGP, make sure neighboring nodes can access each other at the network layer.